[DRK] Suggestion - Remove bonus enmity gain from Abyssal Drain

[TouchandFeel]

While I feel that Unleashed and Abyssal are a bit too redundant, I do not feel that the proposed solution is optimal.
Personally I would prefer either Unleashed gets replaced with a new ability and the Unmend proc goes towards Abyssal, or Unleashed gets it's own additional effect like Slow or some sort of debuff/buff to warrant using it alongside Abyssal.

[Rhaja]

Personally, I'd love it if the enmity gain was stripped, and it was given a damage buff.

[Nektulos-Tuor]

I would rather the threat removed from Abyssal Drain and the "Dark Arts" effect removed as well, and it just heals.

[Noira]

Unleash and Abyssal Drain are the equivalant of Flash then using Circle of Scorn (has eminity now).

[Rhaja]

I honestly see it as Flash and Overpowered.

[LordHousewife]

Personally, I think this ability has many problems, but that is not one of them. The entire drain being on Dark Arts is a huge flaw with the skill itself because the drain is not powerful enough to warrant using over other Dark Arts abilities. Allow me to explain. The amount of damage you heal from using Dark Arts on this ability will never amount to more than the amount of damage you will negate from using it on Dark Passenger or Dark Dance. In other words, there is no scenario where the mana you spend on this skill healing yourself will ever be more efficient had you spent it on the other two. For the record, using Dark Arts on either of the two aforementioned abilities also amounts to less total mana spent.

When you have a skill like Dark Arts in a game, you need to make sure that each skill that it empowers addresses a different scenario. Since healing and negating damage are roughly equivalent to one another in an AoE tanking scenario like this, unless the heal is equal to or higher than what you can negate, then it will never be worth using. Even if it were higher then it Dark Arts would never be worth using on the negation. What they should do is make it so that you heal for 50% of the damage dealt while in Grit and using Dark Arts on this ability increases the potency as well as the drain to 100%.

On A1 instead of having to goes behind the boss to catch adds, I can just use abyssal drain from distance to place them correctly. Will probably find a similar use later on.

What adds are you talking about because I can't think of any scenario where this skill is useful in A1. If you're talking about Faust, only one add spawns at a time so you can just use Unmend and then Unleash them once close. If you are talking about the Alarums, you shouldn't even be hitting those as a tank.

[Freyyy]

The amount of damage you heal from using Dark Arts on this ability will never amount to more than the amount of damage you will negate from using it on Dark Passenger or Dark Dance.

In A2 savage blind and dodge are completely useless since you cannot dodge anything in end game raids. So using DA on Abyssal Drain becomes the only reliable possibility.

Tho I still agree that the mana spent to DA + Abyssal is not worth the self healing unless there is an enormous shitton of mobs. And it's kinda silly that a skill named "DRAIN" doesn't actually DRAIN anything unless you super-power it with Dark Arts. The lifesteal should be built on the spell, and DA should maybe increase the damage dealt by the spell resulting in more self-healing. Would be very bursty during Blood Price phases but... Warriors got Decimate hehe

[LordHousewife]

I was just in A2 Savage last night and you can definitely blind anything that isn't a Doll, Walker, or Widow. Also I wouldn't use Dark Arts Abyssal Drain in there since it costs a lot of mana for little benefit and mana is already extremely tight for DRKs in A2S. They are by far the worst tank for that fight at the moment.

[Freyyy]

You CAN blind but it's useless because you CANNOT dodge. But still Dark Passenger is good with Dark Arts there just for its 250 AoE potency. And DA + Abyssal mana cost can sometimes be completely negated when you're tanking enough monsters with Blood Price on. Tho I admit that it doesn't really happen in A2S because we use to stun some groups of mobs.

I personally switch to WAR for A2S. It's just a complete AoE DPS pornstar.

[Kallera]

You CAN blind but it's useless because you CANNOT dodge. But still Dark Passenger is good with Dark Arts there just for its 250 AoE potency. And DA + Abyssal mana cost can sometimes be completely negated when you're tanking enough monsters with Blood Price on. Tho I admit that it doesn't really happen in A2S because we use to stun some groups of mobs?...

Blind doesn't make much of a appreciable difference in a target's accuracy.